Poker game run out of Georgia beauty salon, police say; Mobilian among 15 arrestees

COLUMBUS, Georgia -- Columbus police arrested at least 15 people early Sunday -- including a Mobile, Alabama, man -- in what they called a poker game run out of a beauty salon, the Ledger-Enquirer newspaper reports.

Police say that several people were playing poke and there was alcohol present when they busted Itha’s Beauty Salon at about 4:45 a.m. Sunday. In addition to the salon's owner, Ranzell C. Mackie, 35, of Mobile, was among those arrested.